[wxPython-users] Failed to display HTML document in ISO-8859-1 encoding

Mon Sep 4 08:25:31 PDT 2006

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:36:09PM +0800, Anthony Wiese wrote:
> It looks like you're trying to send non ISO-8859-1 characters to your HTML
> control, which is trying to convert it. Either you can strip out any
> offending characters, or else you probably need to change your html header.
> 
> If you make sure that when you set the contents of your HTML window to
> include an html header which contains:
> 
> <head>
> ....
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=XXXXXXXXX">
> <title>...</title>
> </head>
> 
> with your charset modified to a suitable encoding, it should work. At least,
> that's how I got it to work on my system.

well, i made this little method:

def setHTMLHelp(self, html):
	encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding()
	html = '%s%s%s%s%s' % (
                '<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=',
		encoding,
		'" /></head><body>',
		html,
		'</body></html>')
	print html
	self.htmlDisplay.SetPage(html)

and it still doesn't work. Hmm no idea what might be wrong. Default
system encoding seems to be ascii, if that's of any help.

Regards
Milos